Not sure if this has already been posted but here's a damn cool video showing the iPhone in action.

This thing looks sexy as hell!!

Not sure if this has already been posted

This video as well as the iPhone bandwagon came and went a couple of weeks ago.

Been under a rock (ie. WoW) lately? :)

Regardless, it looks cool .. though unless they drop the price and also make sure it's not tied to a provider when they bring it to Australia, I won't be considering one.

Purely for the fact that visual voicemail requires extra implementation by the carrier, you'd be hard-pressed to find an unlocked version. I'm willing to put tenbux on the line that Telstra will be the carrier in Australia if/when its released locally.

My current phone has no real buttons to speak of, you kind of need to look at it to see where they are and let me tell you, having no real gap between the buttons either is a BIG pain in the arse. I also have a touch screen remote that sometimes you hit 2 buttons at once because, once again, there is no real distinction between where one button stops and another one starts. The iPhone may look nifty and exciting but buggered if you'll find me buying one.

I believe the multi-touch screen Apple is claiming to have patented, accounts for mistyping two buttons for one. Dunno how, but people who've played with one (and aren't part of Apple/Cingular PR), say it does actually do as claimed..

That said, man, I really shudder to think what the data charges for your phone bill are going to be like, should you use the features this iPod telephone has.

Definitely a "company phone" phone.

Look at a Blackberry - you pay a certain unlimited access fee for the email portion and then tack your voice plan on top of it. Hell, these days there have been IM clients and WAP browsers made to utilise the Blackberry data network, shaving even more data costs off your account. I think carriers have been shown to implement specific data-bundles for specific handsets in the past.

BT here in england are running a Wifi phone... Call credit lasts 4x as much is you use it via their wifi hotspots instead of the normal network... And it automatically searches out the hotspots to make it cheaper for you... interesting times to be living in (i think i'll wait until they release an inspector gadget thumb and finger style phone!)

I'm thinking more in terms of Australia's handling of the iPhone. According the specs, I believe Telstra are the only network provider that is capable of supporting the iPhone's services.

Telstra.

Here in the US, it's Cingular (now once again AT&T), and it's already been stated that Cingular/AT&T's profits will come with the data services.

So let's see what Telstra decide to charge for their "all-you-can-eat" iPhone data service.

WOW, I'm really impressed with that. You look at that...then you look at a Blackberry...just an awesome job. I think Apple is really going to push the evolution of these devices into over drive now.